America's Wars in the Middle East (Full Documentary)
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Appreciate it I followed your videos from ww1 to ww2 and I been waiting for war on terrorism. Keep up the good work 💯
Please release the Russo-Ukranian war 2024 summary as soon as possible please.🎉🎉🎉🫡🫡🫡🫡
The US occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, which led to the destruction of the two countries and killing, wounding and displacement of millions unjustly and aggressively, in addition to the atrocities committed in US prisons such as killing, rape , torture and humiliation like Abu Ghraib, Bagram and Guantanamo. All of this in order to steal Arab oil, dominate over the Middle East and support the genocidal Israeli occupation in Palestine, It is America's losing war that will lead to the fall of its empire that lasted from 1950s.
i like your videos, i would like a video about the Barbary wars etc.
also maybe more ancient history, such as the roman conquest in the middle east, or the Punic Wars etc.
ground news is the most too good to be true service i have ever seen lmaooo
Born too late to deploy to the middle east. Born too early to deploy to the middle east. Born just in time to deploy to the middle east
😂😂
💀
I was confused lmfao
I was born right before all this kicked off. I turned 18 and 2014 and if I’m correct in my math, we were still deploying over to Iraq and Afghanistan so I would have joined. Had I not had a TBI.
So if you're ever feeling useless, just remember the US spent over $1,000,000,000,000 and twenty years in Afghanistan to replace the Taliban with...the Taliban.
They also financed them, so add more cash to that
@ContentEnjoyer-gm3ky "International drag show program" WTF did I just read? Are you enjoying liking your own comments by the way? 😂
Yeah...so,there is a tax for that
Winning is not the point.
@_x__q After over 1 trill spent with literally nothing to show for it, apparently not.
I literally fought in both wars, Iraq twice. All i have to show for it is a prosthetic left foot, insomnia because of the nightmares, severe tinnitus and crippling PTS. GREAT TIMES.
Did you atleast get compensated a littke bit by the state for that?
I am really sad for you man and wishing you the best! but to be honest i am more sympathetic with your victims.
You type like someone much younger.
@_x__q be that as it may I'm 41.
why'd you join?
Using Saddam's South Park caricature will never get old.
Character is the correct word to make sense?
@@MaclovioJLopez nope, he got it right. The definition of caricature is "a picture, description, or imitation of a person in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect."
@@Armoredcompanyidk looks just like him to me ;)
@ Yeah its supposed to, if it didn't look like the intended person, then it would not qualify as a caricature.
@ lol you’re missing the silliness from me and the other commenter. We know it’s a charicture but we are being insulting towards him by saying it looks just like him
This is a great video to listen to while I craft 1,357 Dwarven bows in Skyrim to level up my smithing skill 😀
Same but i steal guitars in notoriety
lol i was editing and said "yep."
Touch grass lil bro
@@brian6070isn’t that the green stuff on the ground outside in Skyrim? Never knew that was actually real
I usually dupe gold for rings
I’m sure the comment section will be civil, friendly, and especially unbiased.
This place is going to be the average who’s the best for new Vegas fallout new Vegas discussion
More people need to educate themselves about the history of the Middle East, to build a clearer picture of how the Americans get involved in every major crisis in the region.
America will get involve anyhow. We are a superpower
Too many people just say "oil" and don't get the whole picture
@@500ccRabbit Of course its the internet. Historical events happen for one reason and one reason only,
Or why their defense spending is so high. It's expensive being the world's police force.
@@500ccRabbitor they wrongly blame Israel.
The sheer effort you put into these videos are amazing! Definitely signing up for armchair TV.
w name
I just loved the Saddam in south park art style
Me to
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
After iraq repeatedly refused to cooperate with weapons inspectors? That's not what the weapons inspectors said. That's what GWB and the rest of the neocons said.
Exactly what i came here to say
Iraq denied entry to the inspectors in 1998 and did not allow them back into the country until 2002
@carn941 the latter was the time being discussed in the video - pre 2003 invasion
There weren't no weapons of mass destruction. Besides, chemical weapons have a shelf life.
@@akinolafolarinoguntuase Chemical weapons can last a very, very long time if stored correctly.
Here are the timestamps of the individual videos!
00:12 The 1990 Persian Golf War
21:50 The 2001 Invasion of Afghanistan
36:13 The 2003 Invasion of Iraq
53:56 The 2004 Battle of Fallujah
1:13:40 The conflict in Iraq
1:26:22 The 2020 evacuation of Afghanistan
those are the public wars only, operation timber sycamore.
2025 Taliban still has Afghanistan ISIS has Syria ... the ISIS just changed his cloths to western
Wear
Thank you so much
2021*
For those saying 2021, we aimed at the date when US started the withdrawal. That being in 2020.
As an American it always saddens me to see how much we wasted on this war, the money we could have spent on our people, the wasted years of war with two countries who didn't attack us, and above all else the real trauma we caused to the untold number of Iraqi and Afghani people, and to our own soldiers. Being a kid and seeing all this history happen on the news was wild, but it was even crazier to become an adult and still having these wars still going on. All for nothing.
the war is not for us average people, its for the rich
These illegal wars are what allow America to maintain America's high quality of lives.
@@diddydumTbf only Afghanistan should’ve after the gulf war 2003 Iraq was a mess
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It’s sad that RUclips tries to inhibit people from simply studying history. They should make a new general video app like yt. I think armchair tv app will be a big deal for people searching for history research
I’m a simple man. I see Armchair Historian, I click.
Shut up or write something original
facten
Ja
Saddam Hussien committed genocide against the Kurds
I quite enjoy these long supercut documentaries. Thank you for each individual video and the collective whole. It's interesting getting to look back on it now after seeing news of these conflicts all the time while growing up.
God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️ :)
Great job, we want more long documentaries like this.
1000000%
The only 1 hour long video i will watch this year's 👌
Excluding the unskipable ads💀
Excluding the live streams
Thanks for such a nice long video that was interesting all the way through- loved the pace you kept up through each conflict felt orderly and coherent.
“I am your father”-Persian empire
Iraq:nuh uh
@ Good
actually Iraq is the father , civilization started in Iraq
@ ok 👍
Babylon must be granddad then
This is like “Middle East: The Epic”
Hearing this video uncensored is like music to my ears.
Interesting would recommend this video pretty good
thanks for recommending this video.
Thanks
Thnx good recommendation
@ZorroOfTheLaw no problem
thanks for recommending this video.
Watching this while flipping houses in house flipper 2. Elite combo
Currently using this as background noise while I paint 40k models, life could be worse!
Another day, another banger video from Armchair historian. Dude i have been digging your vids since 2018 when i was in sixth. Thanks for educating us about world history and keep it up bro👍❤
Brother you've made a lot of videos about almost country involved in a major conflict along with various famous regiments all around the world however I'm eagerly hoping you'd make a video about the Gurkhas letting the public know the sacrifices made by the Gurkhas in every major conflict that has happened. I hope you'll make a video about them. Im eagerly waiting for it.
Thank you so much for this content
Best history channel animation is thick and satisfying
32:16 Can't unsee cave fighting as Pac-man now.
Guys. Youre making animated videos for each point discussed. Please put the date (or date range) of the events discussed in the corner of the screen. Having a constant reminder of the timeline of events makes it way easier to absorb information and construct a holistic mental picture of how things unfolded.
I also recommend reminding people of dates and chronology ("five years after x...", "at the same time..." etc) more frequently in your script, so that people who are looking away or just listening can keep track of things without having to rewind. Timing is such an important aspect lf history and yet in your videos i find i lose track of it much more frequently than other history podcasts/videos. I have to try and pay attention intently for the full duration. At 1 hour 40 minutes, im usually consuming at least part of your videos in the background or while doing other tasks. Im sure many viewers are similar.
I am Japanese. My grandfather's close friend was a soldier in Iraq 21 years ago. He told me that Iraq is very big and they had never been abroad before. In Iraq after the Iraq War , A lot of damage to the country, people were starving and suffering miserably. Japan participated in the cleanup for America in 2004. As a Japanese citizen, I would like to apologize for everything they have done.We don't want to go to war, but there's nothing we can do. It's the duty of foreign governments to come and take care of their own country. America is behind everything Japan does. We can't do anything when America uses tricks in Middle East Up until now, we do not accept that all Middle Easterners are terrorists. There are some good and some bad. But I believe that fate, what we do will have its consequences.
"I...I...I know you are a bad person... b-b-but... I still believe there is some good in you!~" ahhhhh take
As a middle easterner myself I will tell you that you are dead wrong, it's either suffering by terrorist occupation or suffering by war. As long as extremism exist the middle east borders will be carved in blood and bones. Everyone here are terrorists, even the good guys are.
Gwot was the weirdest phase in military history oat
It’s kinda crazy to think that it’s only been 4 years since it ended
It wasn’t a "real“ war. The most powerful countries in the world teaming up against shepherds in sandals is nothing compared to traditional wars like we see in Ukraine right now.
@@Tobi-ln9xr I dont care for your opinion nor was it requested
@@braydenchan302 it hasnt ended and will never end because it isnt on an actual visible enemy but on a set of ideologies that serves themselves by global revolution
@@Tobi-ln9xrthose guys in sandals and black pajamas were a lot more well armed and well trained than people like to imagine. It wasn’t just stone age farmers with AKs.
Fascinating documentary! The detailed breakdown of the Gulf War events and Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait is both informative and captivating. Thanks for presenting history so clearly!
Great video as always
great series. it would be nice if if you connected them is a more seamless manner to make it one cohesive documentary rather than a series of videos made years apart. Just changing the intros, dropping introductions and getting rid of recaps would go along way. New voice over commentary on reused animation or b roll to bring the different topics together. Could be a real magnum opus
I went from seeing this in my feed to clicking it in about .1 seconds
I don't think Ive ever see better on youtube. Insane quality.
We need "WWI but from Bulgarian perspective".
Great video whatsoever!
That is a very general take and perspective. “Not good enough”
This is true at the absolute minimum.
I was in college during the lead up to lraq, and I remember the drumming up of the war cause was so ubiquitous and pernicious. There was a concerted effort between the neocon admin and an obsequious mainstream media, but the case they made seemed so flimsy (it was largely predicated on overt nationaIism and retribution - a terrible combo - and questionable intelligence). Anytime I brought this up though I got called “unamerican” and a “t-ist sympathizer.” Within a few years, however, the whole WMD narrative fell apart and the war become unpopular, and all those people suddenly got reaaaaal quiet haha.
Unfortunately no one faced any consequences, and I don’t think the population learned any lessons about groupthink or uncritically going along with popular sentiments.
Sadly the establishment always prevail. But we just have to see Trump administration combat this. Whether you like him or not he is anti-establishment, an outsider to Washington DC political elites both democrat and republicans like in cases where Bush and Obama administration got us deeply in the middle east(Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria wars)
You pretty much described MAGA in that last paragraph. Lol.
@@anonymousperson9735Isn’t MAGA anti-war, they literally are the ones who have their leader wanting to end wars
@@anonymousperson9735 you must be actually joking. That is literally the Bush and Obama administration. Trump is anti-establishment and against the Military-Industrial Complex whether you like him or not. Bush got us into Iraq and Afghanistan while Obama got us involved in Libya and Syria(he was actually get CIA to invade Syria).
@@anonymousperson9735 fake news. That was Obama and Bush administrations
love your long video🎉🎉🎉
we had no business in the middle east
Most of those nations asked us to be there but okay lol
Oil business begs to differ.. lol
Not that I agree with it, but we literally had BUSINESS there..
@@ToddAllenKitzler then say no
@ContentEnjoyer-gm3ky Let the world stand on its own two feet for a change
@@CatChrist We produce more oil they anyone else on the planet
Kuwait: pay us back
Sadam: You need a rest, guy !
I don't know the validity of it, but early in the gulf war there was rumblings that the US was informed by Iraqs ambassador about the pending invasion of Kuwait, and the US told him that they would stay out of it.
Makes you wonder.
Very enjoyable. Thanks
The South Park references are OUTFKNSTANDING!!!
"Hey relax guy, look over there!"
-Saddam Hussein
What a great video to listen to while grinding on some random game.
A very interesting video.
I would hold off on the South Park animations though.
It undermines the legitimacy of the information you are sharing.
But, apart from that, this was a very good condensed summary of what happened in this war.
So did we do enough war crimes to convince them we're not a paper tiger?
We could still always glass the desert?
I’m pretty sure the Taliban committed more war crimes
@@darthparallax5207 and how many war crimes wasn’t committed by the taliban? Go ahead I’ll wait
we created the Taliban.
@@GSXR-1000mf forgot who created taliban😂😂
@ContentEnjoyer-gm3ky can't get stronger by punching the weak
Great video thank you awesome channel
Love the French joke at 9:13 .. at least they didn't surrender. & What religion is Thacker? 🤣
1:01:39 My father was part of the armored unit sent to reinforce the marines during their house to house fighting, at the time I believe he was the gunner on an M1 Abrams
1:46 genius move with the South Park puns bro. Chefs kiss 💋😘
5:17 the use of syrian flags instead of iraqi throughout the entire video is killing me 😂
Interesting. Amazing. Could you please tell me which software was used in creating such mind blowing videos ?
10:59 "neutral israel" LMAO
I saw that too and had to check the comments. Israel and Netanyahu were begging the United States to go to war with Iraq for years. They later provided evidence for the nonexistent “weapons of mass destruction” that led to the downfall of Saddam.
What's funny?
Israel was neutral because they were not militarily involved in the conflict. Its not about whatever your current thoughts on Israel are
@human4116 I dont really see the point since Iran were the ones who started this.
Not sure I understand.
I remember when operation dessert shield launched
I was at work tending bar when it was announced
The southpark reference took me back. 😂😂😂
American politicians:"Well, this is not in the interest of our endorsers. Let's do a quick intervention. "Damn, full-scale war now." "9-10 years later, let's go out, we won the war, but the local people seem not to appreciate our liberation."
Did you mean the United States’s wars? I didn’t know that the whole continent went to all of those wars!?
I guess USA is multi ethnic by now, there are many people from other countries going there
@ Hi! You’re right, the United States has always been multi ethnic and now it is even more, it’s no a surprise that it is the most powerful nation in the world
If that’s Jeffery sachs in the thumbnail then this will be one heck of a video
I was just complaining to my old timer friends that we were never taught about our recent wars. The war on terror is kind of vague in terms of specific wars. I knew pretty much everything from the Revolutionary War all the way up to Vietnam but now I’ve got the full picture!
@ true but like when my dad was deployed to fight “terrorists” I didn’t know that meant Afghanistan. My hateful little 12 year old ass scribbled out Iraq on my map poster lol
Listening to this while playing WoW
Got to watch this before RUclips takes it down
I have watched the full viedeo allready
oh you uploaded it 39mins ago oopsie
Hey buddy, I'm not your buddy pal, I'm not your pal friend..
Can you do a episode on the ww2 Japan Mongolian border war
Helo can you make a video abaut wath hapend with hungarian solders after ww2. Becaus im a hungarian and im love your videos so if you make it i wil be so happy.
Replacing Taliban with Taliban.. peak u.s. moment😂😂
Haven’t watched yet, but I get the strange feeling this might ruffle some feathers…
They'll just yell "oil" and "AIPAC" while remaining clueless
My thoughts exactly
Oil is just the icing on cake. Or syrup on the pancake since oil is a liquid
But AIPAC did lobby for the Iraq invasion
Yea opium is often overlooked . And ironically the USA has a opioid epidemic.
CIA LEAVES CHAT
You should do the Evolution of the Greek army
"When people say israel is our only friend in the middle east, I day, we didnt have any enemies until they showed up"
so true
The west and the middle east would've always had problems just from the difference of values and the fact that oil was there.
You are just factually wrong. The Barbary wars, where middle eastern pirates looted our ships and took Americans as slaves, took place in the 1700s.
Islam tried to conquer Europe already at the beginning and the United States is part of the Western world so not true
@@zxcvx-m1qThe US wasnt even a country when the muslims did that wym 😂
The South Park references sent me 😂😂 i need to watch that again.
As for those who abuse believing men and women1 unjustifiably, they will definitely bear the guilt of slander and blatant sin.(QS. Al-Ahzab verse: 58)
The South Park Saddan reference was peak
Shame on yt for limiting channels such as this.
My dad served in that war
“AIran”, “AIraq”, my ears hurt 😂
Thankful😊
iRaq & iRan
Armchair Historian trolling 😂
There goes my next 2 hours
Another armchair historian video my bros!
You can thank the CIA for every conflict we have been involved in since WW2.
I was 10 when Invasion happened and grew up in small town in Poland.I remember my older Friends going to war and now thinking back they all trusted USA...
When I clicked on this, I thought it was the History that deserves to be remembered, and was animations like those on this channel, and thought to myself I really hope he's not poaching ACH's style.
Anyone else remember when the Kuwaitis tried to give medals made of gold to all the U.S. soldiers that liberated the country, but Bush Sr. wouldn't allow it?
We were all issued the Liberation of Kuwait medal. The grateful Kuwaiti government wanted to pay each U.S. service member involved a lump sum of cash (gold). Refused by our government on the grounds that "Our soldiers are not mercenaries".
@@trob1731 THAT's it! Sorry. I got my stories mixed up. It was a few years before my time.
‘The Charlie Rose Show’, Spring, 2013
"Had you known prior to the invasion of Iraq that Saddam did not have WMD would you have continued to support the Iraq invasion? - Charlie Rose.
"Yes, because he had had WMD" -former VP Dick Cheney.
- Rose.
The GW Bush administration repeatedly and publicly claimed Iraq WMD was a threat to the USA 2001-3.
Immaterial is the WMD Iraq had 1962-1991, some of which the USA helped Iraq attain and develop.
Iraq actively researched and later employed weapons of mass destruction (WMD) from 1962 to 1991, when it destroyed its chemical weapons stockpile and halted its biological and nuclear weapon programs as required by the United Nations Security Council.
We still got attacked on 9/11. There was intel of chemical labs gathered post the attack. If someone goes out of their way to kill thousands of people and then you find out there is some evidence of actual WMD, and those who attacked deny allowing the UN to inspect the possible lead(s), then no. That's not something you just roll the dice on and hope it's not true. There has to be confirmation. 2001-03 America had every right to do what was necessary. And Iraq could've played ball but decided not to which can be presumed as guilt.
Please make a video about the selous scouts and the 32 batallion
check your sound settings. you are blowing out the low end
1:04:25 Sounds like mosque is another word for weapons cache.
i mean, if its the only place you know is safe from bombing. everyone would choose that place over the other none safe alternatives
@@crazydinosaur8945The Taliban knowingly jeopardized the safety of their own people by turning a safe area into a military target.
Johnson is careful with the words American intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan 😂😂so careful but next you should call them what they are Invasion of sovereign countries
All wars we should have never gotten involved in
What should have been the response to 9/11/2001 then?
I loved the Thacher cartoon!
America when Oil:
American when terrorists:
4:31 You know what else is massive
low taper fade
@@floppy_disk_5high taper fade
@@PrisonEscapeV2Bandit medium taper fade
MY MOMMM
@@floppy_disk_5 moderate taper fade
Fallujah was a modern day Stalingrad
Edit- I meant the battle of Fallujah ( second one in particular) was a modern day Stalingrad
36:48 you can thank my grandfather for those cards
Why
@ he was the sole developer for those cards. He made every single pack
@@justinmisiuda48 don’t suppose you have a pack knocking about . I would pay rather well but not too well 😉
@@justinmisiuda48 the Hoyle ones
0:44 south park mouth
South Park cameo